It slowly began to get dark and the sun sank into the sea. The five sat together around the campfire between the two tents. For once it was quiet. The only thing you could hear was the rustling of the waves and the crackling of the flames.
Every now and then Antonie threw a piece of the collected driftwood into the fire, but no one else did anything. Jenny and Camilla sat close to each other and looked into the fire, just like Meggi, who was sitting next to Camilla, with her back to the sea. Only Sasha watched the setting sun.
After the sea had completely swallowed the sun, Sasha turned her gaze to the sky. "Shooting stars.", She said and the other four also turned their eyes towards the stars. "Where?" Asked Jenny. “Well there!” Sasha pointed across the sea. "I don't see anything. But there.", Jenny said now.
"Since when have shooting stars been red?" Asked Camilla, after the falling stars had disappeared. "Red? You mean blue.", Antonie replied. "No, it was red!" Insisted the sixteen year old. "Milla you are talking nonsense. And Antonie too. Because if the shooting star had a color at all it was green. But that is not possible." "You are all talking nonsense. It was light blue!" So the four discussed for a while whether the shooting star was blue, red, green or light blue.
"Why do you always only talk about one?", Sasha asked after she had just listened for a while, "There were four. One red, as Camilla said, one blue, one green and the last light blue." "That you just say now so that we can shut up. ", said Jenny.
"If you think so," Sasha replied with a shrug. Then she got up and walked towards the water because something was pulling her there. It was like someone was waiting for her there.
Less than 200 meters away from the others, she sat down on the sand. So close to the sea that the waves occasionally touched her feet.The four of them watched her go for a moment, but then fell back into their discussion about the color of the star scale. Only Antonie held back a little. "And what if each of us saw a different one? That Sasha might be right after all and that there were really four and not just one?"
"That is even more illogical than that even a shooting star was colored," replied Meggi, who was still not entirely convinced that it wasn't just imagination. “It doesn't always have to be logical.” Was the only thing that came from Antonie before he just sat there and listened to the three girls with half an ear.
It wasn't until long after midnight that Jenny and Camilla gave up arguing about it, Meggi had already stopped talking because the two started talking about the most insane theories, and went to the tent to get at least a little sleep. Antonie also nodded off from time to time, but again and again an exclamation from Camilla or Jenny had woken him up again.
But when Sasha came back around three thirty, she couldn't help but grin. Camilla and Jenny strangely knotted together. Whereby Camilla managed to put her head on Jenny's legs and on Antonie's arm at the same time. The blue-haired man's arm was hanging around somewhere in Antonie's face. While Jenny's head was on Camilla's stomach and her hand was on her legs.
If you didn't look closely you could hardly see which part of the body now belonged to whom.
Giggling softly, she took two blankets out of her tent, but was careful not to wake Meggi. With one of these she covered this ball of body parts and in the other she wrapped herself, because it had become quite cool by now. Then she sat down again where she could see the sea. But it didn't take long for her to fall asleep either.
None of them noticed how the ashes suddenly glowed and then went out again.Only when the sun had risen a long time ago did Camilla wake up. Having slept slightly, she looked around. Somehow the others were gone. She rubbed her eyes and took another closer look. "They actually left me here alone," she scolded.
"You do not have." it came from Antonie, whom Camilla had thrown the blanket in the face. "Oh. Sorry. I didn't want to.", She apologized immediately when she noticed what she had actually done, "Where are Sasha, Meggi and Jenny going?" "Get breakfast.", Antonie replied shortly, after which he had Put the blanket aside.
"Aja. And what do we do now?", She asked, because she didn't feel like sitting around here dumbly. "Wait." Said Antonie simply. "But that's boring.", Camilla grumbled. The only thing she got in response to that was an exasperated sigh.
Then Camilla sighed too, only that she sounded disappointed. She crawled to the small stone circle in which the fire had burned. She didn't know why she was doing that, she just felt like it. She leaned over and examined the ashes. "Well, what is that?", She asked herself and reached inside, "Antonie look. That was in the ashes."
Antonie looked up. Camilla held out an amulet to him. It was gold with four red diamond pearls, which were attached to a kind of rake that resembled eagle heads, which again hung on a disc about 3 centimeters in diameter on which circles were engraved.
He reached for it, but as soon as he touched it, he felt like it would burn his skin. Immediately he let go. "Au. Damn it is hot!" "Hot?" Camilla looked at him blankly, because it was neither cold nor hot for her. It was at a very comfortable temperature. "Yes, that's damn hot.", Said Antonie and looked at his red fingers, he actually almost burned himself on the thing.
Camilla just shrugged and put it in her pocket."I don't think so." "What are you going to do with it?" Asked Antonie, he just couldn't understand why she was putting the 'thing' in her pocket. "Show it to the others." "What do you want to show us?", Jenny's voice rang out from behind them. She was carrying a paper bag with rolls in it. Meggi and Sasha appeared behind her, each holding a plastic bag. Sashas had milk and cold cuts, and Meggis had apples and other fruit.
“This!” Camilla pulled the amulet back on her pocket and held it out to the three of them. Jenny grabbed it immediately, but the same thing happened to her as to Antonie, only that the heat only reached a few seconds later. She pulled her hand back and so much it on the floor. "Ouch. That thing is hot! How can you touch it?" "Why do you all say that it is hot?", Camilla asked irritated and wanted to pick up the amulet again. But Sasha got ahead of her. She reached for it and held it in her hand, it did feel a bit hot, but it wasn't so hot that it hurt. "Meggi you try to touch it too.", Sasha said, looking at the golden pendant. The color of the pearls reminded her of one of the shooting stars from last night.
Reluctantly, Meggi stretched out her hand, because she did not feel completely at ease with it. A few seconds after she had touched the amulet too, her hand jerked back. "This is really hot. Why can you touch it? It doesn't make any sense."
"It doesn't matter now. I want to have breakfast now!" Came from Jenny, who had already sat down and distributed the camping dishes.
"Yes, let's have breakfast first.", Sasha Jenny agreed for once and handed the amulet back to Camilla. "Here. Take care, I have a feeling it might be important."
Then they sat down and began to eat.
"Antonie will you give me another roll?" Asked Camilla after she had already eaten her second."One more?" He asked in astonishment, because otherwise the blue-haired girl never ate that much. "Yeah, I'm fucking hungry!" She replied.
So Antonie gave her the last roll. He brushed one of her fingers and immediately jerks back, because it was even hotter than the amulet before. "What is it?", Camilla asked irritated by his startled movement. "You're hot!"
Suddenly Sasha, Meggi and Jenny turned their heads to the two. Camilla also looked perplexed at Antonie, who sighed in exasperation. "I meant that your skin is totally hot. I burned my finger on it." He held his finger under her nose, on which a small blister actually formed.
"Awesome.", Camilla marveled and wanted to grab the finger, but Sasha stopped her by holding her hand tightly. She also winced for a moment, because Camilla's body temperature was actually anything but normal. From a medical point of view, she would have been dead long ago. That was far more than 50 °. "He's right. You're glowing."
Jenny also wanted to take her friend's hand. But this time Meggi stopped her. "Jenny doesn't. It was exactly the same with the amulet, we both almost got burned on it." "But ..." she wanted to object. "Nothing but. Neither of you will touch Camilla before we know what's wrong with her.", Sasha said in a tone that shouldn't be spoken to again, "Antonie better cool your finger. And take Jenny and Meggi should go with me, I don't want the two of them to get burned too. "
With a slight protest on the part of Jenny, the three walked towards the water, while Sasha eyed Camilla. “You're not hot, are you?” The sixteen year old shook her head. "No, not at all. Everything feels normal." Sasha began to chew on her lower lip, which she always did when she was thinking about something bigger. "Give me the amulet again.", She said after a while.
Camilla pulled it out of her pocket again and put it in Sasha's hand. "Here."Sasha put it aside and took Camilla's hand in hers again. It was still warmer than normal but not as hot as before. Then Sasha took it again and Camilla's body temperature rose again, but not as hot like before when she held the amulet in her own hand.
Then suddenly Sasha's hand rattled. The two girls looked amazed at the amulet on which a gold chain now hung. The chain links were about the size of Sasha's little fingernail. "Where did she come from?" Both asked as if from one mouth. "If I only knew.", Sasha said astonished. And examined the chain, its clasp was in the shape of a star, or rather that of a pentagram. "In any case, you should have it, otherwise it would not have such a big influence on you." With these words,